Karachi

PeshawarBaghdad

Kuwait

GujaratDubai

Tehran

Where we are on the newsreader and website…

Eval:

• Good:– Rapid source addition

– Intelligent, familiar, and more helpful interface

– Identity spotting getting better

– Web searching much improved

– Addition of the World Press Update• Unexpected introduction, responding to world events

• Less good– All web-sourced, to my knowledge

• Serious copyright impediments to necessary sources **– Obvious problem. Needs a systemic solution.

– No AM, FM, or short-wave

– No languages beyond English

– No visualization in either content or location (but…)

Visualizing a firehose…• Chinese ideograms• “Spatialization” of memory• From a firehose to a river• From a river to a textured form

• EARLY EFFORT !!!

• Java applet– Very flexible, very small (94k)– Much else can be tried

• Word Frequency over time – Frequency plotted horizontally– Time flowing northward

Anthrax Group:

America, Arab, Iran, Iraq, and Laden

~8000 messages

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Anthrax Group:

America, Arab, Iran, Iraq, and Laden

Report of the National Commission on Terrorism

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America, Arab, Iran, Iraq, and Laden

• Real data• Real plot• Real-time• 15k applet

• Size• Location• Color• Texture• Offset• Shadow• Shape• Depth• Opacity…

• Next:

– Dimensions

– Search terms

– Scaling

– Geospatial

– Key

– Performance

– More…

“Our nation has been put on notice. We're not immune from attack”

President George W. Bush21 September 01

In the background…

• Biopreparat

– 45,000 employees

– “battle strains”, VECTOR

– Compound 19, Sverdlovsk, 1979

• Officially 96 victims, 71% CFR

– Resurrection Island, Aral Sea

A few on the list… • Director of Homeland Defense for the Joint Staff

• Director of Response, UN Development Programme

• Director, Collaboration-at-Sea Program: PACFLEET - PACOM

• Director, Human Rights Clinic of California (an Afghan refugee)

• Director, Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, USD

• Director, Operation Handclasp, US Joint Forces

• Director, US Central Asia Task Force, Department of State

• Director, US Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA, DoS)

• Fleet Surgeon, Australian Navy

• Fleet Surgeon, Third Fleet, US Navy

• Former White House InfoSys Director

• Leader of the Afghan expat community

• Medical Planner, 1st Med Battalion, US Marines, Afghanistan

• NSA (members)

• NSF PM, White House Advisor on Information Technology

• President, Emergency Medicine Education Institute, Texas

• President, National Institute for Urban Search and Rescue

• Pubic Affairs Officer, Third Fleet, US Navy

• Public Affairs Officer for the UN World Food Program

• Queen's Advisor on Joint Service Telemedicine, Great Britain

• Vice-Admiral, Director of Naval Intelligence (N2), the Pentagon

• Vice-Admiral, Director of Warfighting Requirements for the Navy

• Vice-Admiral, Liaison - Joint Chiefs of Staff and SecState

• WHO Logistics Officer, Uzbekistan

• CEO, Acumen Fund, Rockefeller Foundation

• CEO, the Highland Group, Washington DC

• CEO, Unconventional Concepts, Eglin Air Force Base

Special Operations Center, Florida

• Chair of the International Negotiators Network, the Carter

Center, Atlanta

• Chair, Department of Medicine, Naval Medical Center,

San Diego

• Chief of the Medical Corps, US Navy

• CIA (members)

• Civil-Military Director, OCHA, UN-Geneva

• CO, Marine Corps Warfighting Lab

• CO, Naval Operational Medicine Institute

• Dean, School of International Studies, Naval PGS

• Department of Defense Office of African Affairs

• DepDirector, UNICEF

• DepDirector CDC Bioterrorism

• DIA (members)

• Director Asia Office for Military Research, Tokyo

• Director of AgroTerrorism Response, DARPA

• Director of Civil-Military Affairs, US European Command

Editor, TIDES World Press Update

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